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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






2. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






3. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






4. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






5. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






6. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






7. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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8. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






9. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






10. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






11. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






12. Academic Language Therapy Association






13. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






14. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






15. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






16. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






17. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






18. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






19. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






20. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






21. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






22. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






23. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






24. Multisensory Structured Language Education






25. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






26. Wide Range Achievement Test






27. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






28. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






29. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






30. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






31. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






32. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






33. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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34. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






35. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






36. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






37. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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38. Multisensory Structured Language






39. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






40. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






41. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






42. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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43. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






44. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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45. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






46. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






47. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






48. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






49. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






50. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)